Nature Positive Role of the Offshore Wind Sector
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any information storage and retrieval system.Contents
Foreword 3
Foreword 4
About the Nature Positive Transitions report series 5
Executive summary 6
Introduction 7
1 Where the sector is today 13
1.1 Sector overview 14
1.2 Progress is promising but needs to accelerate 16
2 Nature-related impacts and dependencies 18
2.1 Double materiality 19
2.2 Ocean and land use change 21
2.3 Disturbances 22
2.4 Pollution 22
2.5 Resource exploitation 23
2.6 Greenhouse gas emissions 23
3 Five priority actions 24
3.1 Priority action 1: Avoid and reduce impacts of direct operations on nature; 28
restore and compensate for unavoidable residual impacts in accordance
with the mitigation hierarchy
3.2 Priority action 2: Avoid and reduce impacts on nature from components 31
and materials through responsible sourcing
3.3 Priority action 3: Innovate product design to reduce material demand 33
and support the nature-positive transition
3.4 Priority action 4: Actively support nature restoration and invest in 34
nature-based solutions alongside local stakeholders
3.5 Priority action 5: Catalyse multistakeholder collaboration and contribute 35
to wider policy and systems change
4 Get started 37
4.1 Align strategy with organizational maturity 38
4.2 A deeper look at metrics to support decision-making 40
4.3 Map the transition on to business functions 41
Conclusion 44
Appendix 45
Contributors 46
Endnotes 49
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